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2)You find that out through trying it. That or reading the description of the skill, which would usually be detailed enough to let you know if it would be something really specific. Even if it's not so useful, it's a lesson learned for the next runthrough or respec, and still another thing you can do in combat. Besides, unless you're playing on a really hard difficulty, there probably won't be much reason to have to worry about a point misspent.

And people are complaining about having to play D3 more than once HAHAHAHAHAHA

Actually I think their servers are purely for matchmaking, it is hosted locally from what I can tell. I had to forward some ports to get it working earlier.

Player/pier hosted gaming is actually worse than dedicated server hosting because it's not just your Internet which you need to stay-up to keep playing, it's some other random persons's...

One of the things which puts me off a game I don't have a huge group of friends playing is player-hosting because I know I'll end-up playing with randoms who all appear to be using 56K modems (and always blame 'their brother' for the problems for some reason).

Player/pier hosted gaming is actually worse than dedicated server hosting because it's not just your Internet which you need to stay-up to keep playing, it's some other random persons's...

One of the things which puts me off a game I don't have a huge group of friends playing is player-hosting because I know I'll end-up playing with randoms who all appear to be using 56K modems (and always blame 'their brother' for the problems for some reason).

I know it's worse but makes more sense for games that do not require a server to handle 50+ players or something. Torchlight 2 goes to 6 players max, so it is not really an issue, it was pretty seemless whilst I was playing, whether I was hosting or another.

Edit: I would also add Torchlight 2 is able to do alot of stuff client side, for example loot is unique to each player which helps keep down data requirements.

I know it's worse but makes more sense for games that do not require a server to handle 50+ players or something. Torchlight 2 goes to 6 players max, so it is not really an issue, it was pretty seemless whilst I was playing, whether I was hosting or another.

The test will be how well it deals with issues - too many games will throw their dummy if the host does something like change graphic options or even alt-tab out of the game!!

Being able to gracefully swap the game onto other players is a neat trick but more work than most developers seem willing to undertake...

The test will be how well it deals with issues - too many games will throw their dummy if the host does something like change graphic options or even alt-tab out of the game!!

Being able to gracefully swap the game onto other players is a neat trick but more work than most developers seem willing to undertake...

Actually I found when the host dropped out the game had no issue switching, I didn't even notice in the couple of times it happened to me. Though it did crash once when the host dropped (though it could have been another issue since I was loading at the time), but this is a beta.

And from what I could tell adjusting graphics options (though most require a restart) and alt-tabbing didn't cause any issue. Torchlight 2 is really stable after all it is being built off the Torchlight 1 codebase which helps alot.

I found out, that playing in internet and then losing it, does not cause you to stop playing. Had shitty internet at parents today, something kept going wrong in the evening but was too lazy to correct.
Going to beat beta second time and now with outlander. In plans to try engineer on elite difficulty as well as embermage later or if I have enough time.

I don't know about the rest of the classes, but engineer + handcannon on Normal mode is a cake walk. Cannonfire + machine gun turret + lvl 1 healing turret, boss in less than 45 seconds, 2 lesser mana potions.

Yeah, either the engie is overpowered or the other classes are a bit nerfed. Try the outlander and let me know how you get on - I'd love to know a good early stat spread for them - also, is it just me or do shotguns never fumble? I can't tell, because, you know, beta...

I found out, that playing in internet and then losing it, does not cause you to stop playing. Had shitty internet at parents today, something kept going wrong in the evening but was too lazy to correct.
Going to beat beta second time and now with outlander. In plans to try engineer on elite difficulty as well as embermage later or if I have enough time.

It was very odd I could join your game and managed to get some decent time in but one area (frosted hills) would take ages to load and whenever it did I was disconnected.